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Apple are. Their “Personal Voice” feature fine tunes a voice model on device using recordings of your own voice.

An older example is the “Hey Siri” model, which is fine tuned to your specific voice.

But with regards to on device training, I don’t think anyone is seriously looking at training a model from scratch on device, that doesn’t make much sense. But taking models and fine tuning them to specific users makes a whole ton of sense, and an obvious approach to producing “personal” AI assistants.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/104993
Good post, you can tell the author has some burn marks from seeing some sparks in production.

> Let's start with The Bad News - you cannot avoid rewriting the entire table, which will generate a significant amount of WAL files in the process. This is a given, and you must plan how to manage it.

There are some exceptions to this. The blog post focuses on changing a column from int to bigint, which indeed needs a full table rewrite to reallocate 8 bytes per ID value instead of 4. But:

> As an exception, when changing the type of an existing column, if the USING clause does not change the column contents and the old type is either binary coercible to the new type or an unconstrained domain over the new type, a table rewrite is not needed. [0]

So, you could change from varchar to text, for example, or change from varchar(20) to varchar(4), etc. and not incur a full table rewrite.

0: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html
"Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. About Adams and Carwardine travelling the world to document several animals on the brink of extinction (by then 1988). Very entertaining and raising questions about the responsibility of human globalization. An all-time favourite.

"Never In Anger" by Jean Briggs. About her living 17 months among Inuit in the 1970ies, documenting how the Inuit see emotions and raise their children without any shouting or violence.

"Shots in the Dark - Japan, Zen, and the West" by Shōji Yamada. About the culture exchange between Japan and the West in the early 20th century and how several perceptions of Zen got constructed in the process.

"Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstaedter. About core ideas in logic, music and art, and their connections. I always find something new there.

"In Praise of Mastery" / "芸談" by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō. An essay about the japanese pursuit of mastery. It's a fascinating window into the arts perception in late 19th century Japan.

Webster's Dictionary of 1913. A great resource for looking up original meanings of words. I find it very useful for naming stuff in programming.

"Woe Is I" by Patricia O'Conner. A witty grammar book. O'Conner's entertaining style makes it easy to grasp the grammar topics and come back for more.
It doesn't need to stay true forever.

The alternative is Google / Android devices and OpenAI wrapper apps, both of which usually offer a half baked UI, poor privacy practices, and a completely broken UX when the internet connection isn't perfect.

Pair this with the completely subpar Android apps, Google dropping support for an app about once a month, and suddenly I'm okay with the lesser of two evils.

I know they aren't running a charity, I even hypothesized that Apple just can't build good services so they pivoted to focusing on this fake "privacy" angle. In the end, iPhones are likely going to be better for edge AI than whatever is out there, so I'm looking forward to this.
>They can always justify it as not knowing the price.

You could as easily say that the marketing department not knowing the features of the product justifies them making whatever claim they want in an advertisement. Why should a company be permitted to advertise something they don't know to be true, let alone something they know to be false?
I agree it's a tricky problem to solve without agreements in place governing it. The airline industry seems to have settled on you follow the laws of the destination country. Ships in particular though do everything they can to abuse flagging their ships with the most lax working regulations.
On any Guix System you can use the childhurd service or generate a disk image. More details here: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/childhurds-and-substitutes...
Strangely, Apple seems to be doing the opposite for some reason (Color accuracy?), as dimming the display doesn't seem to reduce the backlight as much, and they're using a combination of software dimming, even at "max" brightness.

Evidence can be seen when opening up iOS apps, which seem to glitch out and reveals the brighter backlight [1]. Notice how #FFFFFF white isn't the same brightness as the white in the iOS app.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/cPqKivI
almost went for M2 128gb to run some local llamas

glad I held out. M4 is going to put downward pressure across all previous gen.

edit: nvm, AMD is coming out with twice the performance of M4 in two months or less. If the M2s become super cheap I will consider it but M4 came far too late. There's just way better alternatives now and very soon.
This comment is odd. I wouldn't say it is misleading, but it is odd because it borders on such definition.

> Apple's AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning) on edge devices

This is pretty much everyone's strategy. Model distillation is huge because of this. This goes in line with federated learning. This goes in line with model pruning too. And parameter efficient tuning and fine tuning and prompt learning etc.

> This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy

Apple's marketing for their current approach is privacy-first. They are not privacy first. If they were privacy first, you would not be able to use app tracking data on their first party ad platform. They shut it off for everyone else but themselves. Apple's approach is walled garden first.

> Processing data at the edge also makes for the best possible user experience because of the complete independence of network connectivity

as long as you don't depend on graph centric problems where keeping a local copy of that graph is prohibitive. Graph problems will become more common. Not sure if this is a problem for apple though. I am just commenting in general.

> If (and that's a big if) they keep their APIs open to run any kind of AI workload on their chips

Apple does not have a good track record of this; they are quite antagonistic when it comes to this topic. Gaming on apple was dead for nearly a decade (and pretty much still is) because steve jobs did not want people gaming on macs. Apple has eased up on this, but it very much seems that if they want you to use their devices (not yours) in a certain way, then they make it expensive to do anything else.

Tbf, I don't blame apple for any of this. It is their strategy. Whether it works or not, it doesn't matter. I just found this comment really odd since it almost seemed like evangelism.

edit: weird to praise apple for on device training when it is not publicly known if they have trained any substantial model even on cloud.
Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology
So they all think and operate EXACTLY alike? This must be a joke.

If I am wrong then prove it. This is the statement which I have heard a few times already and a cursory search for "unions blocking better road repair technology" in ddg yields these articles which bolsters my argument:

Directly related: https://www.aei.org/economics/america-in-the-slow-lane-how-u...

Tangentially related:

https://uniontrack.com/blog/unions-and-automation

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/union-workers-more-likely-to-...
From the article:

> Nukefix runs on IBM compatible computers. It cannot be run on a Macintosh (sorry). In Windows 3.1 or earlier (but not in Windows95/98), after downloading, always exit to DOS before running Nukefix. The setup program will run either under DOS or Windows95/98/2000. Nukefix is designed to run under Windows95/98/2000 or DOS.

So yes, an old DOS/Windows program. The article also says:

> There is no charge for Nukefix, if you download it. If you wish to purchase the identical version on a floppy disk for $10 (shipping included), you may do so.

and

> With a 56k modem downloading, Nukefix, version 2.3, typically takes about four minutes, but may, depending upon Internet speeds, take longer (1,274 k bytes).

and finally:

> Updated: October 14, 2001

This software is really old. I suppose nuclear weapons haven’t changed much in 20-30 years. OTOH, it probably won’t run natively on recent platforms
Having worked at Apple I can assure you it's not just spin. It's nigh on impossible to get permission to even compare your data with another service inside of Apple and even if you do get permission the user ids and everything are completely different so theres no way to match up users. Honestly its kind of ridiculous the lengths they go to and makes development an absolute PITA.
It does. The parent was making an argument that rails is not great past 1 or 2 developers and more than X lines of code. I was pointing out this argument is not a strong one, since the this is not exclusive to rails, instead hoping to focus on what is exclusive to rails, so we can have a discussion about "Use Rails".
Proofs are literature. They need to go through a peer review process to have someone other than the author verify their correctness. Nowadays often tools like Lean are used to convert the argument into what you would call formal logic. It's nontrivial and takes time.
this seems completely reasonable compared to endless whiteboarding?
You sound like the kind of person I'd actually want to start a business with. Maybe cofounder matching should be a HN feature instead of a tinder clone.
Are there no deadlines in these contracts or penalties where the company is charged X/day until completion?
I wonder how much return to work (as opposed to working from home) contributes to this.
Using host memory for SSD caches is part of the NVMe spec, it's not some Apple-magic-integration thing: https://www.servethehome.com/what-are-host-memory-buffer-or-...

It's also still typically just worse than an actual dram cache.
Harnessing Waste Heat Is the Latest Frontier in Data Center Efficiency
> What is wrong with Boeing's security?

Too many holes.
At some point Google needs to think about why these phones exist. Nobody buys them and there is no way their hardware division is turning a profit. After Stadia, I bet this is next.
I think/hope civilian organizations get access to this technology or the defensive counterparts before it is banned.

Having guns and food and ammo is good, but if civilians want to have a chance against NYPD or (insert dystopian boot) then night vision, drones for surveillance and offense, as well as drone defense are needed.

Having offensive drone tech in the hands of domestic law enforcement scares the shit out of me. I think we are one human generation away from the Matrix "Sentinels" being a reality. Swarms of autonomous disposable killer drones.
We don't vote for our city officials, they got assigned from above. I guess that might be one reason.
> that's little consolation for the 200,000 civilians we vaporized in an instant.

And they’re the lucky ones.
is that really a lot of money for a company? don't you often spend that much in having your developers interview candidates and white board them?
In my experience having worked in coffee shops, restaurants and bars, there is a considerable overlap between the people asking for something off-menu that nobody has ever asked for, and the people who will never be satisfied with their order.

It might seem like a very simple ask, but I think many people working in those jobs have learned it can be expedient to just say “we can’t do that” and short circuit the interaction, rather than to attempt whatever it is, have the customer send it back, attempt it again and have the customer start insulting them for not being able to “get it right”. This is particularly the case if there’s any sort of line, where one person sending something back will make every other customer angry.

I’m not at all saying you are doing this yourself, just offering context on why you might encounter this reaction.

As in many fields, a fraction of people are kind of awful and unfortunately their behavior winds up shaping how many things operate.
I would want to know if the LPDDR6 rumors are substantiated, i.e. memory bus details.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lpddr6-new-beginning-of...

If M4 Max could finally break the 400GBps limit of the past few years and hit 600 GBps, it would be huge for local AI since it could directly translate into inference speedups.
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Except with a human there's a counter-party with assets or insurance who assumes liability for mistakes.

Although presumably if a company is making decisions using an LLM, and the LLM makes a mistake, the company would still be held liable ... probably.

If there's no "damage" from the mistake then it doesn't matter either way.
The decreasing usage of nicotine products in western civilization over the last 30 years should be considered in all doscussions on the increasing prevalence of ADHD. At least one study has shown nicotine use results in increased concentration for those with ADHD; it's possible the true number of ADHD adults in western society has been accidentally covered up by the last 400 years of nicotine usage.
It's kind of odd to me (as someone who used to live there at its latest boom time) that nobody talks about Kansas City when it comes to this topic.

From the ~70's until the early 2010's Kansas City's downtown was in a similar "doom loop" of crime, undevelopment, decaying historic buildings, etc... In that city 75% of the metro lives in suburbs, drives in to downtown for work and promptly leaves. Until about 2012 or so. Urban redevelopment kicked in, adding (free!) transit, boosting retail, arts district events, a new stadium, and crucially - *massive office to housing conversion projects*.

There are tons of success stories like the historic Fidelity Tower at 909 Walnut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/909_Walnut), a huge 35-story tower that sat vacant (creepy) for the better part of a decade and is now home to 159 units. Ditto with the Power & Light Building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Power_and_Light_Bu...) (36 stories) - largely vacant for the better part of 20 years and now home to nearly 300 units. I could go on, every block has similar projects of 100+ year old buildings of nontrivial sizes that are now super unique apartments. I myself lived in the 30-story Commerce Tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Tower) for a while and it was incredibly cheap to do so (~$1100/month for 750sqft 1 bed on the 14th floor), I had a 10 minute commute by foot to my office, it was awesome. Even the more squat, broad midsize banking buildings have had major success with residential conversions.

These kinds of conversions have been proven out when there is willpower to do so at the city level - people will move in and prices typically get competitive fast if done at scale. I've lived in SF for 4 years now and I'm convinced its a policy problem not an economic problem.
Sounds more like a case of "arson, murder, and jaywalking," applied for its rhetorical effect, to me. :-)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJa...
$250 would have been a budget phone 5 years ago. If you're buying an unlocked phone from a brick and mortar store, $350-$500 is the minimum for a brand-name phone. If your are based in the US/EU, you may only have brand name phones available.
I have a USB floppy drive. 20 years ago, I saved it from being thrown out at work, and now I still have it. Well, I assume it works, haven’t actually used it in long time
https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=coffee

Everything I see for US costco is roughly 5$/lb

Good coffee is 20$/lb. That was largely true before covid and "inflation". Most actual premium stuff has not increased in price much, as compared to the """premium""" lines of household brands which HAVE increased in price

Hank Green runs https://good.store/collections/all-coffee which is specialty/premium sourced coffee, with ethical business management where the coffee growers get to own and be involved with more of the process.

They sell 5 pounds of beans for $60
>> rediscovered reading

> Any tips?

> The last book I was able to devour and actually enjoyed was the Harry Potter series

Actually, it was Harry Potter that got me back into reading. I read the first 5 books over the course of 2 weeks the summer after I graduated college.

In some cases I'd see an interview on late night television and read the book the guest was promoting. More recently I read a book that was discussed on the radio during my commute.

In other cases, there was a subject I wanted to learn about, so I'd read books about the subject, or biographies on people who were known in the subject matter.

Sometimes I'll see a movie / TV show based on the book, and like it enough to read the book.

And: J. K. Rowling's new series about Coroman Strike (written under a pseudonym) is excellent. Read it slowly, though. I'm also slowly re-reading Harry Potter to my kids and it's a lot more enjoyable in bits instead of as a binge.
If you’re annoyed about quasi-religious behavior, consider that your comment has nothing quantifiable and contributed nothing to this thread other than letting us know that you don’t like Apple products for non-specific reasons. Maybe you could try to model the better behavior you want to see?
At least here in Brazil, I've never heard such arguments.

Seems even more unlikely for non technical users.

It's just their latest market campaign, as far as I can tell. The vast majority of people buy iPhones because of the status it gives.
My approach to coding is to tackle these types of problems once they occur, instead of thinking "What about...", "What if...". I don't have these problems you're describing, so the script works great.
That's not why thin-and-light bothers me. Historically, ultrabooks and similarly thin-and-light focused devices have been utterly insufferable in terms of performance compared to something that's even a single cm thicker. But Apple Silicon seems extremely promising, it seems quite competitive with thicker and heavier devices.

I never understood why everyone [looking at PC laptop manufacturers] took thin-and-light to such an extreme that their machines became basically useless. Now Apple is releasing thin-and-light machines that are incredibly powerful, and that is genuinely innovative. I hadn't seen something like that from them since the launch of the original iPhone, that's how big I think this was.
it does expose a nuance in VPN configuration though. If we all as an industry perfectly implemented things to be 100% to the spec, and 100% understand all security considerations in the spec from the start, this would be a nothing burger.

From TFA it seems like nordvpn at minimum is affected by this, as per the user report. Lots of users assuming a lot of trust just got violated. I'm sure there's all lots of devs at the VPN vendors and network admins in corporate settings looking around to ensure the hole is plugged.
They used to give tours that went to all levels of the silo (there are like 20+ levels) but the bottoms of the silos flood unless you run diesel pumps a lot. They said it was unlikely they would offer them again. Also Patrick Stewart touched the missile with his bare hands and fucked it up in his arrogance despite being told multiple times not to, apparently (the oils in your hand are corrosive to the alloy used for it).
Yeah, there are small, niche solutions for solving concurrency for very specific use cases vs general support for this in the language. This doesn't help you when you are using the AWS SDK to make HTTP requests or when you want to hide latency of making a DB query and and HTTP request concurrently.

I'm currently working on a large Rails App in my day job and lack of concurrency support is a major limiting factor for the growth of the whole company (~$10B market cap).
This is in Switzerland, where the incentives for the government are usually a bit more efficiently aligned with the citizen's wishes.
Maybe true for a lot of the HN population, but my teenagers are mortified by the idea of me giving them android phones because then they would be the pariahs turning group messages from blue to green.
They do, but they don't do refreshers quarterly.
That's cool! Can you use it to display react apps on the screen though?
There are vanishingly few cities in the US where a walkable/bikeable commute is even a real option even if you're willing to move deep into the downtown and move each time you get a new job. The costs of having my own office are far offset by not having to drive at all most days and I'm only ~15-20 minutes by car from my office.

I work in a large multi-site company so I'm either at home on zoom for meetings or in the office on zoom for meetings hearing 60 other people also have zoom meetings. There's vanishingly small benefits for coming to the office for me because the people I could conceivably benefit from in person collaboration with are hours away so no matter what my day lives on video calls and Teams chats.

> WFH is great for some jobs, but many jobs are better in person,

I'm increasingly convinced this is simply not true for most jobs and it's being pushed by a) middle management who like in office because they can wander by and check in on everyone easier or b) the real estate arms of companies trying to justify extremely expensive leases they can't get out of. Personally I think b is the ultimate reason because it looks bad to have this cost sitting around with no 'justification'.

Anecdotally our leadership was effusive with praise about how productive we were during the 2 years+ of complete work from home and yet no matter how much feedback they get that people aren't happy with RTO we've been slowly ratcheting up the number of days required in and increasing the level of tracking of adherence to this new policy no one but the C-Suite seem to want.
> This still exists in blackbox framework oberon/f

The Blackbox framework has a Windows GUI and is quite different from the Oberon System v1 and v2. Starting with v3 and the active object system (AOS), the Oberon System had also a GUI, even with a window manager. But Wirth went back to the original TUI in his FPGA based Project Oberon System (see https://www.projectoberon.net/); here is a version or this system which runs on all platforms: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem.
damn bro thanks for this

here i am celebrating not pulling the trigger on M2 128gb yesterday

now im realizing M4 ain't shit

will wait a few more months for what you described. will probably wait for AMD

> Given that Microsoft has defined that only processors with an NPU with 45 TOPS of performance or over constitute being considered an 'AI PC',

so already with 77 TOPS it just destroys M4. Rumoured to hit the market in 2 months or less.
I probably would have pulled the trigger on a price drop, but at 600+eur for an old version, I'm just not as into that, as I really expect it to be lasting many years.